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Title: Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18
Identifier: cu31924074096490 (find matches)
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918)
Subjects: Scientific expeditions
Publisher: Ottawa, F. A. Acland, Printer to the King
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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24 Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 included in the country of the Akulliakattangmiut, for when that group crossed over from South bay in the autumn, it used to unite with the Haneragmiut at this place and spend the first part of the winter seaUng in the vicinity. Although the Haneragmiut are now extinct as a separate group, the Akulliakattangmiut still cross over to Ingnerin and do not unite with their eastern neighbours as a rule until after the sun returns, i.e., about February. Bordering on Hanerak is the district oiPuivlik. Beginning from Ingnerin, it seems to reach to about Point Dickens, in the narrow strait just before it broadens out to make Coronation gulf. The general trend of the coast trom Nauyat to Simpson bay is southeast, with a broad deep bight at Simpson bay. The Colville hills do not dip quite so far south, so that although at Richardson bay they come within a mile or two of the coast, farther east, to the north of Read island, the two are separated by an undulating plain from 10 to 15 miles wide. This plain, like the Colville hills to the north, is full of lakes and ponds, some of which, especially those close to and draining directly into the sea, teem with fish, the sea salmon. North of Read island is the low peak Kingautak, a very famihar landmark to the Eskimos. The Colville hills, which are of brown- ish clay formation without signs of any rock exposure, sweep round to the northeast with no apparent break, forming th« " Museum range " remarked by Mr. Stefansson. Here there is one very prominent peak, visible even from
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Fig. 2. View of Mount Wivyaurun from Lake Angmaloktok, Colville hills, S.W. Victoria island Simpson bay in clear weather; Mr. Stefansson called it Mount Bumpus, while the Eskimo name is Wivyaurun. Some ten miles NNW. of Wivyaurun, ui about lat. 69° 45' N and long. 113° W., is a large lake apparently about ten miles in diameter, though it is difiicult in the spring to distinguish islands from shore line even with the binoculars. This is Lake Tahiryuak, beyond the Colville divide, a well-known rendezvous where the Puivlik natives of the south meet the Kanghiryuak natives of the north in the later days of spring. From Mount Wivyaurun, Museum range (or the Colville hills), for the two here seem identical, appears to continue down to the southward, probably with a trend east. The Colville hills enclose an enormous number of lakes and ponds, ranging from tiny lagoons a few yards wide to lakes several miles in diameter. All except those that freeze to the bottom in winter abound in lake trout and lake

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